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Spoils of the Horde (accurate) · Fit for an Autopsy

EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove U -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 47 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART S2
CHORUS
PART AI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesUS2AYS11AI+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Spoils of the Horde (accurate) on drums

172 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-49, toms through bars 50-51, snare through bars 52-56, toms through bars 57-58 and snare through bars 59-91, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 43-45, 47-49 and 51-53, and 5 more places -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    43               44
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|--x---x-----x---|
Spoils of the Horde (accurate) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 89 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AI, AR -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part Q -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 38 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-43 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part Q and the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 5 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part AI -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Spoils of the Horde (accurate)?

185 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Spoils of the Horde (accurate) hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Spoils of the Horde (accurate)?

11 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 89 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED